"History is not everything, but it is a……" — John Henrik Clarke
"History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be."
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John Henrik Clarke
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59 Quotes by John Henrik Clarke
John Henrik Clarke has 59 quotes on this site.
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Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not…
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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought…
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A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,…
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To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early…
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A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
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What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a…
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Anytime you turn on your own concept of God, you are no longer a free man. No one needs to…
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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or…
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Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving…
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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